The NFL lockout is coming to an end. Yeah, I know the players have not accepted the new collective bargaining agreement. In fact, I examined whether they even should ratify the CBA in a piece at PackerChatters after the owners agreed on their end..

Note: the first slide of this article is taken from a piece written for the Sharks page of Sports Haze Bay Area. The San Jose Sharks signed Andrew Murray to a one-year contract Tuesday worth $575,000 according to CapGeek...

The San Francisco Giants entered last weekend two games ahead of All-Star host Arizona for first place in their division. They had the third-best record in the National League and the fifth-best record in all of baseball...

When a team makes it to the conference finals two years in a row, they usually look to make few changes the next season. In the post-lockout era, however, the salary cap has made roster turnover an inevitability...

Over 60 hours into free agency, there had been little activity from the San Jose Sharks . Two players signed and four lost. And they had just 23 players with even a full game of NHL experience under contract...

It was not an especially active opening day of free agency for the San Jose Sharks . Only two players, Michal Handzus and Jim Vandermeer, were signed to contracts. Only Ben Eager ( Edmonton ) and Jamal Mayers ( Chicago ) have new homes to head to...

With the San Jose Sharks ' budget tight and needs many (click this link to view the offseason series posted on the Sharks page at Sports Haze Bay Area), the team must get the most out of every dollar spent...

The 2011 NHL draft has concluded. The San Jose Sharks entered the draft for the second straight year as the best team in the regular season among those to finish in the final four of the NHL playoffs...

Speculation is that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins will be the top pick in this weekend's 2011 NHL Draft , but how accurate are those assessments? Over the days that follow, there will be a lot more speculation about which team did best...

The 2010-11 champions have all been examples of character rewarded . That and each of the links below shows how a team was taken through the fire and made stronger for it. First came the San Francisco Giants in November...

As evidenced in previous examinations of the roster outlook for the 2011-12 San Jose Sharks , there are some tough choices lying ahead for General Manager Doug Wilson. The first order of business is to look at what you have under contract...

With the two finals opponents determined, two more trophies were handed out: Clarence Campbell to the Vancouver Canucks for winning the Western Conference and the Prince of Wales to the Boston Bruins for winning the Eastern Conference...